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CYE has readers in over
100 countries.

The CYE journal disseminates knowledge and stimulates discussion in support of inclusive and sustainable environments for children and youth everywhere

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Our Mission

The Children, Youth and Environments journal disseminates knowledge and stimulates discussion in support of inclusive and sustainable environments for children and youth everywhere.

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ABOUT

The CYE journal is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary, online journal, highlighting the physical environments where children and youth live, learn, work, and play. The journal values the capacity of children and young people to meaningfully participate in the processes that shape their lives and publishes papers from distinct viewpoints, varied approaches, and diverse cultures and regions around the world.

 

The journal publishes papers in the form of research articles, field reports, and book/media reviews ranging from:

 

  • Quantitative and qualitative empirical research

  • Theoretical, methodological, and historical investigations

  • Critical literature reviews

  • Design analyses

  • Post-occupancy evaluations

  • Policy studies

  • Program assessments

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CYE seeks to strengthen connections between research and practice. Field reports, in particular, which reflect on lessons learned in the field and the challenging realities of practice, are of great interest to our readership. We value this contribution and remain dedicated to publishing a variety of papers. For this reason, a traditional scientometric impact factor, which is based on a count of all items published in an issue, fails to reflect the impact and influence of CYE research specifically. We are continuously considering new and innovative ways to accurately measure the impact of our research articles. We currently use Google Scholar to measure the citation impact.

 

Google Scholar Metrics

h-index 33

i10-index 100

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CYE has a global community and connects the worlds of research, policy, and practice

 

HISTORY AND BACKGROUND

CYE appeared as a print journal from 1984-1995 as Children’s Environments Quarterly and Children’s Environments. In 2003, it was revived as an online journal, which now reaches readers in more than 160 countries. Readers and authors include researchers and practitioners in education, childhood studies, geography, sociology, child and youth development, child welfare, child rights advocacy, development studies, architecture, landscape design, urban design and planning. CYE is endorsed by UN-­Habitat and guided by a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board.

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Current Issue
The current issue, (Volume 33, no. 1, 2023), includes 7 research articles, 1 historical note, 1 field report and 1 book review spanning across the globe. The research articles cover a wide territory of knowledge and findings: the study of children’s online artwork revealing their value as social agents; the relationship of neighborhood landscape affordances to children’s play during COVID-19; how building design focused on engagement and safety and used primarily to support school practices leaves the teenagers feeling betrayed and untrusted; relationship between school environment, access to social places, and identity development; using model-making workshops to gain primary school children’s perspectives on a ‘good schoolyard’; distribution and use of purpose-built nature play spaces reveal their prevalence in most South Australian schools; and, interesting and rich ways to use urban contexts to spark interest in environmental education. The historical note details the emergence of ‘Hedenesse,’ a self-governing youth village in The Netherlands, after World War II. A field report shares a project focusing on outdoor gardening in early childhood education in the United Arab Emirates. The issue concludes with a review of Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo.

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OUR TEAM
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Victoria Carr

University of Cincinnati

Co-Editor

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Daniela DiGiacomo

University of Kentucky

Field Report Co-editor

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Rhonda Brown

University of Cincinnati

Co-Editor

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Sue Elliott

University of New England, AU

Field Report Co-editor

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Claire Underwood

University of Cincinnati

Editorial Assistant

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Leslie Kochanowski

University of Cincinnati

Managing Editor

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Özlemnur Ataol

Eindhoven University of Technology

Book + Media Review Co-editor

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Jenny Steffel Johnson

University of Colorado

Copy Editor

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Ann Rossmiller

University of Cincinnati

Special Projects Editor

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Catherine Volpe

University of New England, AU

Book + Media Review Co-editor

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Louise Chawla

University of Colorado, Boulder

Vikhas Mehta

University of Cincinnati 

EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD

Nicole Ardoin

Stanford University, USA

Debra Cushing 

 Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Enakshi Ganguly

HAQ Centre for Child Rights, India

Lia Karsten

Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jill Litt

University of Colorado, USA

Barry Percy-Smith

University of Huddersfield, UK

Julia Torquati

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Victoria Derr

California State University, Monterey Bay

Robin Moore

North Carolina State University

Mark Blades,

University of Sheffield, UK

Janet Dyment

 University of Tasmania, Australia

Jorgelina Hardoy

Int’l Institute for Environment & Development, Argentina

Isami Kinoshita

Chiba University, Japan

Janet Loebach

Cornell University, USA

Nancy Wells 

Cornell University, USA 

Roger Hart

City University of New York

Fahriye Sancar

University of Colorado, Boulder

Caitlin Cahill 

Pratt Institute, USA

Ingunn Fjøtof

University of South-Eastern Norway

Laurie Harmon

Laurie Harmon, University of Wisconsin, USA

Angela Kreutz

Angela Kreutz, Deakin University, Australia

Laura Malinin

Colorado State University, USA

Lynn Liben

Pennsylvania State University

Willem van Vliet

University of Colorado, Boulder

Sudeshna Chatterjee

 Action for Children’s Environments, India

Claire Freeman

University of Otago, New Zealand

Harry Heft 

Denison University, USA

Kevin Lalor

Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland

Lorraine E. Maxwell

Cornell University, USA

Sharon Ergetta Sutton

Parsons The New School, US

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